Maybe so, but Minny's athletic department has been a fiasco the last few years, at least in the Men's sports. Here's an excerpt from Patrick Reusse's (Star Tribune) annual Turkey of the Year article for 2016...
The Turkey of the Year for 2016 is a large and costly entity:
Men’s Athletics at the University of Minnesota.
The male athletes provided the university with the worst basketball team in 120 years of the sport in 2015-16, the once-proud hockey team just won the second of its past 17 games vs. other Minnesota teams, the 2015 football team went 5-7 and reacted to a bowl bid as if it was deserved, and even last Saturday, there were fewer than 25,000 spectators in the stadium for a season-saving victory over Northwestern.
Also on the résumé of men’s athletics is the Xanax ring that was operating inside the wrestling team and wound up getting legendary coach J Robinson dismissed.
Oh, yeah. The fellows also had so many videos of sexual encounters floating around in the ether that the Turkey Committee was wondering if a couple of coaches had brought in Ray J as a motivational speaker.